The Slow & the Chill?

That sounds like you either have a very hermetic social circle that resembles the AV Club staff, or are engaging in wishful thinking. Despite Rowling’s chronic foot-in-mouth disease, and the Chappelle special putting a spotlight on her views recently, there were a surprising number of Gryffindors trick or treating…

Was he a self-identified feminist? Or are we just using TERF as another generic word for transphobe now?

So...do we think having someone go to GRRM’s house and tell him, “Bit of boob biting, then slap her bum and go!” might actually shake a one of those books loose? I feel like most fans are past caring whether he’ll cry about it in the bathroom later.

Yeah, he’s a dick (or his wife’s a dick, as she was the one who really went ballistic over it, Baldwin’s reaction was more disbelief), and the move of granting a presser to the paparazzi was full of passive aggression, but that’s not terribly relevant here. Now that I’ve seen the video, the guy questioning Baldwin…

Yeah, but that’s a complaint about the director, not the movie. The movie featured career-best or near-best performances from the leads (Clooney’s better in Out of Sight and maybe Oh Brother Where Art Thou) and it’s emotionally resonant. However, Reitman first outed himself as an out-of-touch douchebag during the…

That seems like a mean thing to do to the sun, an old friend who’s treated us pretty well.

I think the only person who’s really excited about Leto’s Morbius is Sam “Finally” Barsanti.

There was a second where I was little surprised Doctor Strange was #18, but then I realized all the movies from #19 up are pretty damn good. I might shuffle a few films around, but there’s nothing to really get all that upset about.

Whereas one of the things Order does poorly is Fred & George’s “quitting” of school. I don’t expect nor do I ask for the movie to be word-for-word. Cutting Quidditch is generally an easy subplot to streamline a script. But in the movie, there is no build-up or motive for them to escape. They just... do.

The more positive way to spin that is that Janeway’s the one Star Trek captain that doesn’t have the support network of Starfleet or the Federation to fall back on, so she’s the only one who realizes how much privilege the Prime Directive represents. It’s one thing to put on an elaborate costume drama for a more…

Perhaps the first time ever anyone has considered the combined populations of America’s emptiest states “staggering.” I mean, that’s almost a decent-sized city worth of people.

Yeah, the Order book is overstuffed and repetitive (so...Harry’s upset? You don’t say!), but the final confrontation is a pretty huge moment for both characters in the series. It’s insanely long in the book (I want to say close to 100 pages all on its own?), and rather than make some attempt to streamline it or adapt…

I love Order, but I get why others don’t: it might be the hardest book to film, since it’s almost entirely about being in Harry’s head while he’s making really poor decisions. A lot of that internal conflict isn’t helped by Gambon’s gruff and somewhat dickish interpretation of Dumbledore , because Gambon’s…

If Dune remains at the top of the Box Office, how can Halloween Kills “drop to second?”

Maybe WB’s a little shy about overcommitting to a director after Zack Snyder? The decision to both film an adaptation of half the book and then not to film both halves as a simultaneous or near-simultaneous production was so bizarre that I wouldn’t have been surprised if they bailed at the first sign of poor critical…

Does it matter? If you’re going to make someone’s life miserable by stalking them everywhere and yelling at them to answer your questions every time they enter or exit a building, if they stop and actually take your question you’d damn well better be ready to ask your question. 99.9% of the time the celebrity is just…

IMDB doesn’t show anyone cast in the role, so the thing I keep wondering is, who are they casting as mom to 52-year-old Ice Cube/inappropriate romantic interest of 52-year-old Jack Black? Because I have a bad feeling that if Cube had manned up and gotten the jab, they would’ve been trying to pass off Angela Bassett or…

In a rational world, where the only weapons and ammunition brought onto a film set are the production’s weapons under the armorer’s control, that’d be right. Sadly, we don’t live in a rational world, we live in America, and in New Mexico anyone over the age of 19 can open carry a firearm. So it’s certainly possible…

and insulting Tarantino might be a good way to get cast by Tarantino.